1 General

1.1 Personal Data

Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. We adhere to the policy of data avoidance. As far as possible a collection of personal data is avoided.

1.2 Dealings with Personal Data

Unless indicated otherwise in the following chapters, the legal basis for the handling of your personal data results from the fact that such handling is required to make available the functionalities of the website requested by you (Article 6 1 b General Data Protection Regulation [“GDPR”]). Also, personal data will only be processed with your consent (Article 6 1 a GDPR). As a matter of principle, they are not forwarded to third-parties.

1.3 User Data collection

Some data are collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. These data are primarily technical data such as the browser and operating system you are using or when you accessed the page. These data are collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

We may collect other data when you provide it to us. This could, for example, be data you enter on a contact form.

1.4 Data usage

Part of the data is collected to ensure the proper functioning of this website. Other data can be used to analyse how visitors use the site.

These data will not be combined with data from other sources.

2 Your Rights

The following rights are in general available to you according to applicable data protection laws and regulations:

• Right of information about your personal data stored by us
• Right to request the correction, deletion or restricted processing of your personal data
• Right to object to a processing for reasons of our own legitimate interest or public interest, unless we are able to proof that compelling, warranted reasons superseding your interests, rights and freedom exist, or that such processing is done for purposes of the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims
• Right to data portability
• Right to file a complaint with the appropriate Regulating Authority governing us, which is the Commissioner for Data Protection
• You may at any time with future effect revoke your consent to the collection, processing and use of your personal data. For further information please refer to the chapters above describing the processing of data based on your consent.

In principle the execution of your rights above is free of charge to you.

3 Data Security

3.1 Data protection

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this Privacy Policy. If you use this website, various pieces of personal data will be collected. All data on our website are secured through technical and organizational measures against loss, destruction, access, modification, and distribution. We shall, however, not assume any liability for the destruction and damage of data. Please note that data transmitted via the internet (e.g. via e-mail communication) may be subject to security breaches. Complete protection of your data from third-party access is not possible.

3.2 Website access

When you call up the website, your browser will transfer certain data to the web servers. This is done for technical reasons and required to make the requested information available to you. To facilitate your access to the website, the following data are collected, briefly stored and used:

• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL
• IP address
• Date and time of access
• Status of access/HTTP status code

Moreover, to protect our legitimate interests, we will store such data for a limited period of time in order to be able to initiate a tracking of personal data in the event of actual or attempted unauthorized access to our servers (Article 6 1 f GDPR).

3.3 Cookies

This website may use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. They store certain information (e.g. your preferred language or site settings) which your browser may (depending on the lifespan of the cookie) retransmit to us upon your next visit to our website. You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

3.4 SSL or TLS encryption

This site may use SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and for the protection of the transmission of confidential content, such as the inquiries you send to us. You can recognize an encrypted connection in your browser’s address line when it changes from “http://” to “https://” and the lock icon is displayed in your browser’s address bar. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transfer to us cannot be read by third parties.

3.5 Registration for closed user groups

There is further specific information that we only share with a limited group of people. Therefore we file the following personal data:

• Name and surname
• User name and password
• E-Mail address

We process this personal data in order to provide you with an access to our website. They are automatically deleted in case you deactivate your user account.

4 External services or content

4.1 Partners

We may include third-party services and/or content on our website. When you use such third-party services or when third-party content is displayed, communication data are exchanged between you and the respective provider for technical reasons. The respective provider of the services or content may also process your data for own additional purposes. To the best of our knowledge, we have configured the services and content of providers known to process data for own purposes in such a way that either any communication for other purposes than to present their services or content on our website is blocked, or communication only takes place once you have actively opted to use the respective service. However, since we have no control over data collected and processed by third parties, we are not in a position to provide binding information regarding the scope and purpose of such processing of your data. For further information regarding the scope and purpose of such collection and processing of your data, please consult the privacy statements of the providers whose services and/or content we include and who are responsible for the protection of your data in this context.

4.2 Social Media platforms

Our own social media sites may be reached through links on this website. Using these links you shall reach the corresponding websites of the third-parties (e.g. Facebook) and be able to share our content. As soon as you have opened the third-party site you shall enter the area of responsibility of the third-party, so that their data protection policy or explanation of data usage is applicable. Since we have no control over this we recommend to log out from the respective third-party website before the use of the respective link to avoid unnecessary forwarding of data, so that the third-party provider cannot create user profiles through the use of the links.

4.3 Affiliate Links

We may place affiliate links for certain third-party providers on our website. With these links we generate revenues (advertising cost refunds) if purchases are made from the respective third-party or if its page is called up. The third-party provider may use cookies to be able to locate the origin of the purchases or the call. However, this does not affect the use of our website and, in particular, does not constitute a purchase obligation. Set affiliate links should serve you only as a facilitation of your purchase. Also, the respective data protection policies of the third-party providers apply.

4.4 Google Web Fonts

This website may use Google Web Fonts. The Web Fonts are transferred to the cache of your browser to allow them to be used for the presentation. As your browser connects to Google servers Google becomes aware of your IP address calling this website. Should the browser not support Google Web Fonts or prevent access to the same text will be shown in standard print. The usage of Google Web Fonts to optimize the optical appearance of this website is a legitimate interest (Article 6 1 f GDPR). The respective data protection policy of Google applies.

5 Contact

For any questions you may have with respect to data protection, please contact me using the contact details you find on the Publication Details page of this website.